5So 



POPULAR SCJENCE MONTHLY. 



Basel, Teutonic Type. 

 Ceplialic Index, 64. 



possessed by 72 stu- 

 dents. This figure 

 is near the aver- 

 age for the British 

 Isles ; and likewise, 

 it should be added, 

 for Hottentots and 

 the wild men of Bor- 

 neo, as our world 

 map shows. Com- 

 parisons have been 

 instituted in parts 

 of Europe between 

 the professional and 

 uncultured classes 

 in the same cona- 



tions of the head, therefore, we are 

 measuring merely race, and not in- 

 telligence in any sense. How fortu- 

 nate this circumstance is for our 

 purposes will appear in due time. 



Equally unimportant to the an- 

 thropologist is the absolute size of 

 the head. It is grievous to contem- 

 plate the waste of energy when, dur- 

 ing our civil war, over one million 

 soldiers had their heads measured 

 in respect of this absolute size, in 

 view of the fact that to-day anthro- 

 pologists deny any considerable sig- 

 nificance attaching to this charac- 

 teristic. Popularly, 

 a large head with 

 beetling eyebrows 

 suffices to establish 

 a man's intellectual 

 credit; but, like all 

 other credit, it is 

 entirely dependent 

 upon what lies on 

 deposit elsewhere. 

 Neither size nor 

 weight of the brain 

 seems to be of im- 

 portance. The long, 

 narrow heads, as a 

 rule, have a smaller 



Berber, Tunis. 

 Cephalic Index, 72. 



munity. The differences in head 

 form are as apt to fall one way as 

 another, depending upon the degree 

 of racial purity which exists in each 

 class.* In our study of the propor- 



* Dr. Livi finds that in northern Italy the pro- 

 fessional classes are longer-headed than the peas- 

 ants ; in the south the opposite rule prevails. The 

 explanation is that in each case the upper classes 

 are nearer a mean type for the country, as a re- 

 sult of greater mobility and ethnic intermixture. 

 This topic is dis(?ussed by the author in Publica- 

 tions of the American Statistical Association, vol 

 V, p. 38 seq. 



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